| "On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "It ain't the heat, it's the humility." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." »Harry S Truman |
| "heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." »Alighieri Dante |
| "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers." »William Penn |
| "Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed." »Herodotus |
| "Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Morley |
| "Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger." »John Bay |
| "One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." »Herodotus |
| "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." »Denis Diderot |
| "What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire." »Stanley Kunitz |
| "Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." »John Donne |
| "All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing |
| "Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum |
| "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." »Napolean Hill |
| "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain" »William Shakespeare |
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